Holiday Cards

Based on the popularity of the Artists’ Postcards Series I and II editions, select artists from the earlier series created special cards for the 1979 holiday season.

small, white boat with christmas trees on the edges

Russell Drisch

S.S. Good Fortune

Carol Anthony

Peace

Carol Wald

A Child's Christmas

“The epoch of the picture postcard is, apparently, upon us. Like some waif suddenly rescued from the obscurity in a 19th century melodrama, the postcard has been elevated to a new status. It has been claimed as heir to the art of the present age. And, so — presto! — we have “Artists’ Postcards,” an exhibition that enlists the talents of such luminaries of the current scene as John Cage and Robert Motherwell, Lee Krasner and Donald Barthelme, Saul Steinberg and John Ashbery... a remarkable demonstration of diverse talents working to order on an unusual assignment.”
Hilton Kramer
The New York Times, November 25, 1977

Christopher Hewat

With Love

Fanny Brennan

The Tree

Robert Kulicke

Hope

Series I

The initial edition of thirty-nine postcards was the first of its kind to be published in the U.S.A. Distinct from art postcards that are miniature versions of celebrated works, each Artists’ Postcard carries a new picture created especially for it by a living artist.

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Series II

Series II consists of fifty works in varied media, produced originally on more than ten different papers, by diverse printing processes. The artists are painters, sculptors, photographers, poets, cartoonists, writers, filmmakers, architects, and a dancer.

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